Family
Doto nudibranchs
Dotidae
- Species in the gallery
- 1
- Genera
- 1
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Description
Dotidae is a family of small nudibranchs in the superfamily Dendronotoidea (suborder Cladobranchia). WoRMS recognises four genera, Doto, Kabeiro, Miesea and Caecinella, with the great majority of species in Doto. The family is found worldwide, including the Mediterranean, mostly in shallow water. Dotids are typically less than 2 cm long and feed on hydroids, on which they also lay their eggs.
Identification
Doto and its relatives have a slender body with a single row of swollen, egg- or pinecone-shaped cerata on each side, covered with rounded tubercles in rings, so they look like tiny bunches of grapes. The smooth rhinophores emerge from conspicuous flared, cup-like sheaths. These knobbly cerata and cupped rhinophore sheaths separate them from aeolids, which lack sheaths, and from Eubranchidae, whose cerata are inflated but not arranged in neat tubercle rings.
Genera
1 species
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